The eight new appointments bring the total number of Homes England’s housing association partnerships to 23. If all goes to plan, together the 23 will share a £1.7bn funding package and deliver around 40,000 affordable homes starts by March 2022.
The new partnerships announced today are: Bromford; Curo & Swan; Liverpool Mutual Homes & Torus; Longhurst & Nottingham Community Housing Association; Together; Walsall Housing Group; Yorkshire; and Your Housing Group.
Homes England chairman Sir Edward Lister said: “Our new ways of working with the sector means that housing associations can use their funding flexibly across their development programmes and respond quickly to local housing demand and a changing market.”
|
Partnerships |
Grant |
Number of affordable starts by March 2022 |
|
Bromford |
£66.4m |
1,400 |
|
Curo & Swan |
£51.1m |
1,067 |
|
LMH & Torus |
£66.4m |
1,757 |
|
Longhurst & Nottingham Community Housing Association |
£71.7m |
1,685 |
|
Together Housing Group |
£53m |
1,152 |
|
WHG |
£38.7m |
1,000 |
|
Yorkshire |
£61.8m |
1,300 |
|
Your Housing Group (YHG) |
£87.5m |
2,315 |
Torus said that it now plans to accelerate its new-build delivery programme of 5,300 affordable homes for rent and future home ownership, investing £750m over the next five years across the northwest.
Torus chief executive Steve Coffey said: “The Homes England strategic partnership will have a massive impact on our new build plans for the next five years. The partnership funding will see our development programme grow by 29%, which will mean wider housing options and additional new homes built across the northwest, especially in our heartland areas of Liverpool, St Helens and Warrington.”
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